Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances: or, Hints for Enterprise in Neglected Fields.

£350 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A presentation copy, Inscribed on verso of front free endpaper: ‘Baron A. Hohenbruck / with the Author’s / kind regards.’ An important, pioneering work on the recycling of waste materials and the substitution of new, previously unexploited materials in place of traditional but vanishing materials - such as the use of vegetable products, rather than rags, to manufacture paper. The recipient of the inscription is presumably Artur Adolf Schwänger, Freihoff von Hohenbruch (1837-1902), who wrote several books on land use, agriculture and wine production in Austria. Edges lightly bumped, slightly dusty and some discolouration to the boards, otherwise very good.

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